Kat Hagedorn

About

Kat Hagedorn is Project Manager for Digital Projects in the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS), and is responsible for managing and maintaining the digital collections in this unit, as well as the projects the unit is involved in. She is heavily involved in HathiTrust in a number of ways, as the MDP-Google Contact for MLibrary Google Digitization and as the Quality Ticket Manager for HathiTrust User Support.

For 8 years, she maintained and grew the OAIster project, a search gateway for OAI harvested records leading to digital objects, initially Mellon-funded in 2001-2002. As part of a collaborative agreement with OCLC, OAIster was transferred to OCLC in October 2009.

She chaired the Usability Group from 2005-2007 and is currently a core member of the group. In 2005, she was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker. Her previous experience is in information architecture (with the Argus Associates firm) and ontology and taxonomy consulting (with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome).

Background

Kat received her MLS from the University of Michigan School of Information in 1996.